Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:37:49 +0000 From: Colin Stamp <col.dustbinnospamp.plus.com> Subject: Re: Mildly entertaining SID tale
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:48:01 GMT, meld_b <meld_bnospamo.com> wrote: >Hey - I've got dead pixels too... So can you tear these apart and work >on that connection? I've seen this "zebra rubber" connections to LCD's >before that if you wiggle it around you can get it back working. Of >course I've also seen stuff bonded together so that you can never take >it apart at least not in a state were you can get it back together. It's a bonded-on flexible cable I'm afraid. From what I read, sometimes the bonding fails and sometimes the conductors in the cable fail. A lot of people with failed bonds have been able to get it going by using rubber strips to increase the pressure on the cable. Mine was down to the conductors, so nothing worked. I farted about for hours trying to completely replace the cable with wirewrap wire glued to the glass with conductive epoxy. Unfortunately, the cable pitch is really fine, and it was a bit of a frustrating job. Eventually this resulted in the whole unit becoming broken into a thousand pieces - My foot must have slipped, repeatedly. > >Maybe more importantly - how do you reset this thing once you take it >out. Sorry - that's probably been discussed a lot. There's no need to reset it. It just works when you plug it back in. If you buy a new unit though, you have to take it to someone with a Tech 2 to tell it what car it's going into. Cheers, Colin.
